Perks that work while playing as Victor

dugman · December 2021

My next daily mission is Twins tonight and it got me curious about which specific perks actually work while you're playing as Victor. The wiki just mentions that "no perks work on, against or with Victor, as he is not considered a Killer-entity" and that Charlotte's perks are "disabled". But they don't really go into what it means for perks to be disabled or specifically which perks do continue working while you're Victor.

I thought I'd try and compile a list. Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong on any of these. Keep in mind this list isn't "what is useful or not useful for the Twins", it's specifically looking at what you can or can't trigger or use while you're actively Victor. For instance, Scourge Hook: Pain Resonance works on the Twins because Charlotte does all the hooking so it triggers normally whenever she hooks a survivor on a Scourge Hook. But while you're Victor you can't hook anybody so for the purposes of this list you can't activate the perk while you're him.

General notes

Victor can't see auras, so Nurse's Calling doesn't work
Victor can't carry anybody so hook related perks don't work
Victor can't damage anything so things like Brutal Strength don't work
Victor doesn't vault
Victor doesn't bloodlust
Victor doesn't have a terror radius

Perks that should still work while playing as Victor

Claustrophobia
Corrupt Intervention
Fearmonger
Forced Penance
Hex: Ruin
Hex: The Third Seal
Hex: Thrill of the Hunt
No Way Out
Remember Me
Scourge Hook: Gift of Pain (the effect happens after rescue)
Stridor
Thanatophobia

Perks that should partially work as Victor

Bloodhound (Victor can already see blood in bright red, but Bloodhound also makes survivors bloodtrails last 4 seconds longer than normal)
Deadlock (The generator that is most completed would still be blocked, but Victor won't see its aura in white)
Deathbound (Victor would still hear the survivors scream when healed, but wouldn't benefit from Oblivious)
Discordance (Victor won't see the generator's aura in yellow but should hear the noise alert)
Eruption (Victor can't kick gens, but when he downs someone it should trigger Eruption on the gens Charlotte kicked)
Hangman's Trick (Victor can't see the aura while carrying but would hear the loud noise when someone sabotages a hook)
Hex: Undying (Victor can't see the auras of people near totems but it should still swap Hexes onto itself)
Hex: Hoarder (Victor can't see the aura but does hear the loud noise notification)
Infectious Fright (Victor can't see the aura but hears the screams)
Spies from the Shadows (Victor won't see the auras of the crows but should hear the noise notification)

Perks that don't work while playing as Victor

A Nurse's Calling
Agitation
Bamboozle
BBQ and Chili
Beast of Prey
Bitter Murmur
Blood Echo
Blood Warden
Brutal Strength
Coulrophobia
Coup De Grace
Dark Devotion
Dead Man's Switch
Deerstalker
Distressing
Dragon's Grip
Dying Light
Enduring
Fire Up
Franklin's Demise
Furtive Chase
Gearhead
Grim Embrace
Hex: Blood Favour
Hex: Crowd Control
Hex: Haunted Ground
Hex: Huntress Lullaby
Hex: No One Escapes Death
Hex: Pentimento
Hex: Plaything
Hex: Retribution
Hex: Devour Hope
Hysteria
I'm All Ears
Insidious
Iron Grasp
Iron Maiden
Jolt
Knock Out
Lethal Pursuer
Lightborn
Mad Grit
Make Your Choice
Monitor and Abuse
Monstrous Shrine
Nemesis
Oppression
Overcharge
Overwhelming Presence
Play With Your Food
Pop Goes the Weasel
Predator
Rancor
Save the Best for Last
Scourge Hook: Pain Resonance
Shadowborn
Sloppy Butcher
Spirit Fury
Starstruck
Surveillance
Territorial Imperative
Thrilling Tremors
Tinkerer
Trail of Torment
Unnerving Presence
Unrelenting
Whispers
Zanshin Tactics

Alionis · December 2021

You might have misunderstood the wiki, it's not that perks are completely removed while controling him, but that their active effects won't trigger on him. Perks that have passive effects or effects that are not tied to the killer directly will continue to work, since they those don't care whether you're controling him or Charlotte.